Dowland to thee is dear, whose heavenly touch As, passing all conceit, needs no defence. One god is god of both, as poets feign; One knight loves both, and both in thee remain. VERSES AMONG THE ADDITIONAL POEMS TO CHESTER'S LOVE'S MARTYR, 1601. 16 1 LET the bird of loudest lay, Herald sad and trumpet be, 2 But thou, shrieking harbinger, 3 From this session interdict Every fowl of tyrant wing, Save the eagle, feather'd king: Keep the obsequy so strict. 4 Let the priest in surplice white, Be the death-divining swan, Dowland:' a famous lutanist.-2 Defunctive music can:' knows funeral music. 5 And thou, treble-dated crow, That thy sable gender mak'st With the breath thou giv'st and tak'st, 'Mongst our mourners shalt thou go. 6 Here the anthem doth commence : Love and constancy is dead; Phoenix and the turtle fled In a mutual flame from hence. 7 So they loved, as love in twain Two distincts, division none: 8 Hearts remote, yet not asunder ; 9 So between them love did shine, 10 Property was thus appall'd, That the self was not the same; 11 Reason, in itself confounded, 12 That it cried, how true a twain Love hath reason, reason none, THRENOS. 1 Beauty, truth, and rarity, Here enclosed in cinders lie. 2 Death is now the phoenix' nest; 3 Leaving no posterity :- 4 Truth may seem, but cannot be ; 5 To this urn let those repair For these dead birds sigh a prayer. WM. SHAKSPEARE. Threne:' funeral song. END OF SHAKSPEARE'S POEMS. |